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BRANDY ROW - Poldark meets Moonfleet in this 19th century smuggling love triangle, located in Brandy Row on Portland, at the southernmost end of Dorset's notorious Jurassic, Chesil Bank, exposing long standing family secrets and leading to conflicts, tragedy, heartache and ultimately salvation.
SYNOPSIS:
Imagine the Isle of Portland in the days before the construction of the ferry bridge when smuggling was rife and the close knit community armed themselves against foreigners or ‘Kimberlins’. A young fisherman, Matthew, has fallen for Violet, the beautiful daughter of a smuggler. They are childhood sweethearts when the new Customs Riding Officer arrives on the scene. Richard Dryer is handsome and shrewd and a worthy protagonist for the smugglers, but trouble is brewing for everyone when Violet falls in love with him.
Knowing that she risks being ostracised by her family and friends Violet has to make a decision that will have repercussions throughout the rest of her life.
This is the first in a collection of West Country Tales. A family saga that encompasses two generations, it puts the flesh and bones on the history of Portland between 1830 and 1851. Starting at a time when the only access to Portland was by rope ferry and leading up to the construction of the breakwater, it involves the arrival of the convicts being taken to the Verne prison prior to transportation, the opening of the ferry bridge, the construction of the breakwater, and the traditions, celebrations, superstitions and customs particularly relating to Portland at that time. It features smuggling affrays, sea rescues, attempted rape and murder, blackmail and imprisonment, tragedies and heartache.